Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the first land-based planes appeared from New Guinea, U.S. troops dived for foxholes, thinking they were Japs, then, seeing the U.S. markings, tossed their helmets and bellowed for joy...
Near Esschen, Belgium, Private Richard Joy of Winnipeg and Private Lou Cervo of Vancouver started out to look for battle souvenirs. Soon they met a German...
Said "Shorty" Joy, whose age is 20 and whose height is 5 ft. 4: "I walked up to him toughlike, and I said, 'Mop oop!' I don't know German and I figured that might sound like 'Get up!' . . . The Jerry put down his gun and gave up. Then I looked across a field and there were six Jerries looking at us from a trench. ... I walked over shouting 'Oop mop!' and by golly, out they came...
...Later Joy and Cervo spotted more Germans in a hedge. "I shouted 'Oop mop' and out came Jerries. . . . When we finished clearing up the hedge, we saw more and bigger foxholes, some of them with mortars. We made the Jerries bring out their weapons and pile them, until we had 49 Jerries. . . . [The prisoners] glared at us and I glared back and shouted 'Mop oop!' and we brought back our souvenirs...
...First Army was Bradley's pride & joy after D-day (it is still his favorite). But Bradley had a bigger job cut out for him: combined command of the First and of General Patton's armor-heavy Third, whenever the Third could be broken loose out of Normandy. Hodges was on hand to run the First...